Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18, later BB-18), 1906-1923

USS Connecticut, lead ship of a class of six 16,000-ton
battleships, was built
at the New York Navy Yard. Commissioned in September 1906, she
became flagship of the Atlantic Fleet in April 1907 and retained
that role for some five years. During the rest of 1907, Connecticut
took part in the Jamestown Tri-Centennial celebration and participated
in fleet exercises. In December, she led the Atlantic Fleet's
battleships out of Hampton Roads, Virginia, beginning a historic
cruise around the World that lasted until February 1909.

Upon her return to the United States, Connecticut was
modernized, receiving new "cage" masts, grey paint and
numerous other alterations. Thereafter, she mainly conducted routine
operations in the western Atlantic and Caribbean. However, in
1910-11 and in 1913 the battleship crossed the Atlantic to visit
European waters. During World War I, Connecticut was employed
as a training ship off the U.S. east coast and in the Chesapeake
Bay. In the first half of 1919, she served as a transport,
making four trans-Atlantic voyages to bring home veterans from
France.

In 1920, the year she was given the hull number BB-18, Connecticut
made a training cruise through the Panama Canal to the west coast.
She made another training voyage in 1921, this time to Europe,
then transfered to the Pacific Fleet. USS Connecticut decommissioned
at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in March 1923 and was sold for scrapping
in November of that year.

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Photo #: NH 553

USS Connecticut (BB-18)

Running speed trials off the Maine coast, 1906.
Photographed by Enrique Muller. Note sailors crowding the rails,
watching the photographer's boat, which is about to be swamped
by the battleship's bow wave.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 73318

USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18)

Probably in San Diego harbor, California, in 1908.
Photographed by Fred W. Kelsey.

Courtesy of R.W. Cunningham, 1971.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 61208

USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18)

Underway, circa 1909-14.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 2325

USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18)

Dressed with flags while at anchor in the Hudson River, off New
York City, prior to World War I. The occasion may be the Fleet
Review of October 1911.
Steam launch at left is from USS Washington (Armored Cruiser
# 11).

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 55339

USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18)

Photographed about 1920.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 55335

USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18)

The National Ensign is raised during commissioning ceremonies
on the new battleship's after deck, at the New York Navy Yard,
Brooklyn, New York, 29 September 1906.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 100349

USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18)

Leading the Atlantic Fleet's battleships out of Hampton Roads,
Virginia, probably at the start of the "Great White Fleet"
cruise around the World in December 1907.
Photo printed on a stereograph card, copyrighted by Underwood
& Underwood.

To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here
are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded
and used for any purpose.

Some images linked from this page may bear obsolete credit lines
citing the organization name: "Naval Historical Center".
Effective 1 December 2008 the name should be cited as: "Naval
History and Heritage Command".